Re: XP workgroups
- From: Hhspaladin <Hhspaladin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 19:08:01 -0700
I'm having the EXACT same problem. I have two wireless XP Home SP2 laptops
(both identical Compaqs, actually) and one wired XP Pro Desktop. All
computers are connected to a Belkin Wireless G Router, connected to a cable
modem. I initially had my desktop and my girlfriend's laptop on the network,
and everything worked. Then, my parents got an identical laptop, and tried
to connect to the network. They have internet, so the DNS and DHCP are
working correctly, and the new laptop can ping the other computers and the
gateway, but cannot ping itself. The other computers time-out when they try
to ping the new laptop. I made sure the workgroup name is the same and the
SM is the same. The other two computers can still communicate and browse the
network/internet, so there are no conflicts. Also, the new computer can't
access the workgroup when I go to view workgroup computers. What could be
the issue?
"Bill" wrote:
Hummmmm! One of the machines doesn't have a name and password,.
though there's no reason that it can't. In all cases, except one laptop, the
systems have dual hard-drives AND I was attempting to share all across
the board. From a functional standpoint, it would be easy to arrange to
share only the 2nd drive and leave the c: drive un-shared. (The data of
primary interest can easily be staged on the 2nd drive if it isn't there
already.)
I will go to the site in a day or so and incorporate the suggestions given
in this thread.
Many thanks,
Bill
"Frank" <bbunny@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Bill" <stanton@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm having no end of problems with a simple workgroup network wherein
I'm trying to share the hard-drives amongst 3 machines. Sometimes one
system
will "see" the drive resources on one of the other machines via
MyNetworkPlaces
and sometimes "workgroup name" not available, sometimes maybe network
services aren't started or sometimes permissions not given or Lord only
knows
what else.
Two of the machines are XP Home SP2 while the 3rd is XP Pro. Each is
connected to a Linksys WRT54G router that is also connected to a satellite
modem for wideband service. Each is joined to a single workgroup "GCC"
and "most" of the time the that workgroup will show up in the
MyNetworkPlaces
tree, even though subsequent attempts to view the workgroup nodes might
fail.
I thought XP Home systems could handle a simple network as I've
described.....
Is that wishful thinking?
host/name = Unique
workgroup = same
as a rule of thumb c: cannot be shared
fast user switching figures into the equation
all machines must have a user name and password blanks don't work
XP HOME and XP PRO are different in the regard
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